Operation Carnaval

Rio just finished throwing the biggest street party on the planet. But will there be enough port-a-potties for World Cup?

After Carnaval in Rio went off with a record 5 million partiers – and without major incident – the international press had to find some more creative angles.

Reuters notes that despite an aggressive campaign against peeing in public, the people-to-port-a-potty ratio only reached one-to-5,500 at the city’s biggest street parade.

Although Rio hosted twice as many partiers as the entire country is expecting for the 2014 games, The Financial Times says there’s more to hosting World Cup than “putting people up in hotels, caring for them when they get sick and cleaning up after them.” Soccer, we presume.

Lyrics: “Zero tolerance for discrimination / We all want respect and inclusion.”

Nothing came close to the scale of “Operation Dry Law” (Operação Lei Seca), Rio’s campaign to curb drunk driving.

There were Lei Seca stickers dotting the sidewalks, Lei Seca balloons bobbing in the lagoon formerly occupied by the World’s Largest Floating Christmas Tree, and Lei Seca balloons floating over blocos.